Revolutionizing emergency medicine: Overcoming long-term challenges with innovative solutions for physicians and patients
My previous post on this topic described long-term cultural and organizational challenges facing emergency medicine (EM) that pose greater threats to the specialty than temporal challenges (e.g., overproduction of emergency physicians (EPs)). Some challenges are not remediable; they are inherent to the specialty:
- short-term patient relationships
- unpredictable workload/intensity
- frequent, rapid fluctuations of stressful and less-stressful periods
However, many detrimental aspects of EM can be substantially …
